RE: wont you please watch this? NOW: Outrage over European Orphanages/Ins

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What an adventure you are on, Meredith!! I read much (but not all yet) of your blog! You are doing such a great thing, adopting Aleksa, saving her from a horrible death! I just can't shake this sadness though. My little family of 4 is always broke, but I am going to add $25/mo to our "budget" to donate to Reece's Rainbow, in hopes that it helps someone in adopting another child.

How will I ever get over this sadness.....how can i ever enjoy carefree happiness when I keep getting pulled back to the thoughts of those children tied down, cold and in the dark, only getting touched a few times a day for diaper changes and to be fed. I can't take this. And if I try to "forget" or put it out of my mind, I feel guilty.

I am crying right now, and I don't want my boys to see me like this. I already said too much to them about what is making mommy sad.

I don't want them to know the world's misery at their tender age.

I am praying more than I ever have.....I have even asked the Lord to just TAKE them! Stop their pain and suffering and just take them Home with Him!!

I'm sorry....I'm just sobbing away...I can't even see what I am typing anymore.....

God Bless you and your family Meredith!

From: Multiples-DS [mailto:Multiples-DS ] On Behalf Of Meredith CornishSent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:40 PMTo: multiples-ds Subject: RE: [DSTNI] RE: wont you please watch this? NOW: Outrage over European Orphanages/Ins

Oh , I can feel and see your pain. Reece's Rainbow is a WONDERFUL organization!! That is who I found my Aleksa from! It was to our great horror that we received word about a month ago that our little angel has been transferred to a mental institution. She is just shy of her 5th birthday now (sometime this month). Although we have seen so many blessings along this path there is no way to reason away from the grief and fear of my heart in knowing where she is now. Only prayer can subside the tears, and knowing that this isn't her last stop in life, and we will hopefully be there soon to get her. There are so many more children though- without families coming for them- that are now hitting the fateful ages of 4 and 5 and facing their "final transfer" into a mental institution. The images of Serbia haunt me and I pray that's not what we find when we go to get our daughter. But either way we now find our assurrance in spreading the word about Reece's Rainbow and knowing that there are other families that also love andcare for our kids. Please take a look at Reece's Rainbow! It is really a wonderful ministry! www.reecesrainbow.com Just as an update to our adoption process- all our paperwork has been approved and we are now just waiting on a travel date. We hope to hear in the next few weeks and will likely travel in late Jan/ early Feb. I'll be over there for 6-8 weeks but will be bringing two sweet angels home with me :)MeredithMom to Kristopher (3 1/2)na (22 mos, Ds)Adopting Aleksa (5, Ds) and Dillon (4, Ds)mkp1982hotmailwww.cornishadoptionjourney.blogspot.comwww.reecesrainbow.com/sponsorcornish.htm

To: DSTNI CC: bamarobertscomcast (DOT) net; Multiples-DS From: kristin.millerbankofamericaDate: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:20:28 -0600Subject: [DSTNI] RE: wont you please watch this? NOW: Outrage over European Orphanages/Institutions

Hi Deb,

Can you please tell us about your experience when you went to Russia for Marsha? Specifically, what you saw in the orphanage, how the children looked and were treated, what was the name of the orphanage, etc? Or do you have a BLOG site where we can "read all about it"?

I have not stopped thinking about these children since I read 's email regarding the "Gift for Speech Therapist" last week.

I have not stopped crying, either outward sobbing, or internal thoughts of tears.

I cannot get the picture I saw of a child, who looks like my Warren, completely swaddled with his arms inside the swaddle.

I wrote to , asking how best to donate my "meager" $25/mo commitment - and she said to put it into the "Child of the Month" fund, since these children are the ones at most risk! After they turn 4, in some countries like Russia and Ukraine, these toddlers are put in horrible mental institutions for the rest of their life (no longer eligible for adoption!!). At 4 years old!! Who could do that?

http://downbloggers.blogspot.com/2007/11/so-this-is-christmasand-what-have-you.html

(this site contains the FULL Report on SERBIA INSTITUTIONS from MDRI (Mental Disability Rights International) - NOV 2007!!)

I haven't slept well in almost a week. I am depressed. I am beside myself with grief.

I am having a very hard time dealing with this. I dream about them, I wake up thinking about them.

I cannot focus on my work. I cry watching Warren sleep, I cry watching Warren explore, laugh, eat, color, and on and on....(mostly on the inside - not shedding tears to keep from having to talk about it).

I have not and WILL NOT watch the YOUTUBE video from this email chain, as I cannot take SEEING more of this atrocity.

But I want the WORLD to view it!

I want ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN to see it!! I want this to be EXPOSED to the world, in hopes of this changing the future of these children!

For those from the Multiples-DS list, and the DS Assoc of Houston, Here is the link to Reece's Rainbow, an INCREDIBLE non-profit org who's mission it is to find homes for unwanted children with DS around the world! http://reecesrainbow.com/

This is the youtube video from Reece's Rainbow - it's beautiful:

And this is the video, which I cannot bring myself to watch, it may be filled with lovely pictures of children, or it may show the horrible conditions within the orphanages - I don't know:

Sincerely,

, mom to 4 yr old twins, Warren (DS) and Sam

From: DSTNI [mailto:DSTNI ] On Behalf Of Deb & MikeSent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:41 AMTo: DSTNI Subject: [DSTNI] Re: wont you please watch this?

Hi Everyone!

I've only posted a couple of times but once it was about our daughter Masha's diarrhea.

Well, I just wanted you to know that we found Masha through Reece's Rainbow in June of 2006. Because , founder of Reece's Rainbow, leading us to an adoption agency that jumped through hoops and even elicited the help of another agency we were finally able to get Masha out of St. sburg, Russia. Now, of course, we are slightly in debt because it is an expensive process. Right now we couldn't consider international adoption b/c of the cost. Does this mean we wouldn't want another child with Down syndrome? No, but we just cannot afford it. So with these donations to the Christmas Angel project maybe we will be able to adopt again.

I can tell you it is a very legit organization!!! If the child gets adopted outside of Reese's Rainbow the money will probably just get transferred to another child. Or if we were to get rich somehow and decided to adopt I would just have transfer that money to another child to increase that child's chances of getting adoption. Because of and Reece's Rainbow there are quite a few children already home with their new families and even more are in the process of getting their new children. If you want check out the homecoming part of the Reece's you will see the families that are already.

Oh, by the way-We are seeing a GI for Masha's diarrhea

Deb R.

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